The Secret Society of Torturers: The Social Shaping of Extremely Violent Behaviour
How do normal people become able to torture others? In order to explain this puzzling social phenomenon, we have to take secrecy – the characteristic trait of modern torture – as the lynchpin of the analysis. Following Georg Simmel’s formal analysis of the “secret society”, the contribution reconstr...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Bielefeld
2016-04-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Conflict and Violence |
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| Online Access: | http://ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/405/pdf |